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University of South Carolina Columbia, SC (USA) USC BICENTENNIAL CONFERENCE on Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies NORTH AND SOUTH: Identity, Imagination, and Memory in Medieval and Renaissance Cultures 
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The North-South division is perhaps the most salient feature of the current global economy. Such differences have a long history. In many regions of the world, climatic and geographical contrasts have occasioned conspicuous differences in crop production and diet, in shelter and clothing, and in a range of other markers and vehicles of cultural identity. The distinct character (stereo-)types ascribed by ancient philosophers, notably Aristotle, to northerners and southerners have had long-lasting effects that reverberate today. Within many geographically distinct regions the unification of North and South and their disparate societies has required immense effort and frequent bloodshed, from China to France or Britain in the Old World, to the United States in the New World. But the diversity and differences associated with geographical distance have also often supplied and continue to supply positive cultural stimulus and opportunity. As we seek to come to terms with the rise of new economic and social influences of the North on the South in the modern era, the influences of pre-Modern era Southern societies upon the North come to mind. One thinks, for example, of the debt of Medieval Europe to Islamic and Jewish Civilizations and that of Northern Europe to the Italian Renaissance. Schedule of Events Thursday, March 22 7:30pm Gambrell Hall Auditorium (Gambrell 153) Professor Jan Ziolkowski, Chair Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Musical Notation in the Singing of Classical Poetry in the Middle Ages Friday, March 23 8:30am–8:45am Russell House Theater (Russell House Student Activities Center, Greene St.) Joan Hinde Stewart, Dean, College of Liberal Arts Cole Blease Graham, Dean, College of Criminal Justice Gordon Smith, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts H. Thorne Compton, Chair, Executive Committee, University of South Carolina Bicentennial Commission Russell House Theater Chair: Jeremiah Hackett, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina Prof. Alfred Ivry, Department of Near Eastern Studies and Skirball Professor of Jewish Thought in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University Muslim and Jewish Philosophical Influence on Medieval Philosophy Russell House Theater Chair: Bert Dillon, Department of English, University of South Carolina 1. Scott Gwara, Department of English, University of South Carolina A History of Italian and Insular Uncial Script in the Seventh Century 2. Robert B. Patterson, Department of History, University of South Carolina Margam Abbey's Busy Scribe 12: Twelfth-Century Business Hand on the Welsh March 3. Gordon Wilson, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Asheville University Book-Hands: Editing Henry of Ghent's Summa Russell House Lecture Room 203 Chair: Paul Allen Miller, Director, Program in Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina 1. Gila Aloni, Department of English, Hunter College, and Shirley Sharon-Zisser, Department of English, Tel Aviv University (Israel) The Enfolding "lyne oriental": Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Culture in Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe 2. Christel Johnson-Brown, Program in Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina Othello: Black and White Stereotypes All Over 3. Grant Hamby, Program in Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina Sir Walter Raleigh and the Origins of British Colonialism 4. Bernadette Andrea, University of Texas, San Antonio Who is She? North and South Division and the Gendering of Late Seventeenth-Century England Luncheon: The Patio Cafe, Patterson Hall 2:00pm–2:45pm Russell House Theater Chair: Robert B. Patterson, Department of History, University of South Carolina Prof. Marcia Colish, Department of History, Oberlin College Resonances of Stoicism in Medieval Thought Russell House Lecture Room 203 Chair: Scott Gwara, Department of English, University of South Carolina 1. Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of South Carolina Romans, Barbarians and a "Clash of Civilizations" 2. Raisa Khamitova, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary) Symbiosis and Exchange between Muslims and Christians in Syria during the 3. Paul Lonigan, Department of Romance Languages, City University of New York From Latin to Romance Languages: Celtic Contributions Russell House Theater Chair: Faust Pauluzzi, Department of Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, University of South Carolina 1. Catherine Castner, Department of French and Classics, University of South Carolina Regional Identity and Authority in Biondo Flavio's Italia Illustrata 2. Charles Burroughs, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University Fixed versus Flexed: Geographical Implications of an Antinomy in Early 3. Pamela Merrill Brekka, Tampa, Florida Italy and the North: Artistic Exchange and Pan-European Thought ca. 1450 Graniteville Room, Mezzanine Level, Thomas Cooper Library Hosts: George Terry, Vice Provost and Dean of Libraries Patrick Scott, Associate University Librarian for Special Collections Robert L. Felix, Professor of Law and President, Thomas Cooper Society, University of South Carolina Russell House Theater Chair: R. I. G. Hughes, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina Professor David C. Lindberg, Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Medieval Church Encounters the Classical Scientific Tradition: Augustine, Roger Bacon and the Handmaiden Metaphor Dinner, City of Columbia Restaurants Saturday, March 24 8:30am–10:30am Gambrell Hall Auditorium (Gambrell 153) Chair: Lawrence Rhu, Department of English, University of South Carolina Professor Victoria Kahn, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Ties that Bind: Rethinking Obligation in Milton's Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and Paradise Lost Professor David Quint, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University Milton and the European Tradition: A Lucretian Undersong Gambrell Hall Auditorium (Gambrell 153) Organizer: Lawrence Rhu, Department of English, University of South Carolina Chair: Ward Briggs, Jr., Department of French and Classics, University of South Carolina Commentator: Andrew Shifflett, Department of English, University of South Carolina 1. John Watkins, Department of English, University of Minnesota Milton and the Goddess with the Human Voice 2. David J. Bradshaw, Department of English, Warren Wilson College Fata viam invenient: Asserting Eternal Providence in Virgilian and Miltonic Epic 3. Lawrence Rhu, Department of English, University of South Carolina Ariosto, Milton and Early Modern Scepticism 4. Catherine Gimelli Martin, Memphis State University Epic Revisionism: Tasso, Bacon and the Neoclassical Aesthetics of Paradise Regained Gambrell Hall Lecture Room 151 Chair and Commentator: Kathryn A. Edwards, Department of History, University of South Carolina 1. Catherine Levesque, College of William and Mary The Grotto: Spiritual Ladder or Mirror of Creation 2. Nandra L. Perry, University of North Carolina Identity and Imitatio: Negotiating the Protestant Self 3. Olivia A. Bloechl, University of Pennsylvania Polyphony and Prophetic History in Gabriel Sagard's Histoire du Canada Gambrell Hall Lecture Room 152 Chair: Margit E. Resch, Chair, Department of Germanic, Slavic and East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of South Carolina 1. Nancy Van Deusen, Department of Music, Claremont Graduate University Southern Musical Influence on Northern Europe: Augustine 2. Arjo Vanderjagt, The Medieval Institute, University of Grøningen, The Netherlands The Uses of Humanism in the North: Northern Scholars and Burgundian Politicians 3. Kurt Goblirsch, Department of German, University of South Carolina Scandinavian with a Southern Accent Lunch 2:30pm–3:30pm McMaster College Auditorium (Room 214) Chair: Charles R. Mack, Department of Art, University of South Carolina Prof. Carol Purtle, Department of Art, University of Memphis The Interaction of Southern and Northern Art McMaster College Auditorium (Room 214) Chair: Davis W. Baird, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina Commentator: Jeremiah Hackett, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina 1. Jan Opsomer, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina From Greek to Roman Stoicism 2. Graziella Federici Vescovini and Orsola Rignani, University of Florence (Italy) Biagio of Parma's (Doctor Diabolicus) Astrological Materialism 3. Richard Lemay, City University of New York Gerard of Cremona and the Organization of Translators: Arabic to Latin McMaster College Lecture Room 239 Chair: Jeffery Persels, Department of French and Classics, University of South Carolina 1. Zoë G. Urbanek, Department of Foreign Languages, Southern Methodist University Eleanor of Aquitaine and Marguerite of Navarre 2. Amy Ogden, Department of French, University of Virginia Exotic Propaganda in Late Twelfth-Century France 3. Michael Sharp, Department of English, Binghamton University (SUNY) Embracing Chaucer, Rejecting England: Nationalism and Poetic Tradition in Late-Medieval Scotland 4. Patrick O'Neill, Department of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill North-South in Early Medieval Ireland McMaster College Atrium Remarks: Donald Greiner, Associate Provost and Vice Preseident for Undergraduate Affairs Joan Hinde Stewart, Dean, College of Liberal Arts Robert Newman, Chair, Department of English, University of South Carolina Davis Baird, Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina William Edmiston, Chair, Department of French and Classics, University of South Carolina Dinner, City of Columbia Restaurants Registration Fee The $50 registration fee covers full participation in the conference, including all sessions, refreshments, luncheons and reception. Attendance at lectures only is free for all students and the general public. Conference Organizers and Sponsors The conference has been organized by the Committee for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of South Carolina, the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University, SUNY. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of our institutional contributors:
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